But having been attracted to the new Buddhist doctrine while they were in NW India, they, after their shift, sculpted imposing images of the Buddha in standing position in the Bamiyan Region in ...

This is no ordinary sculpture but one modelled on the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan which was destroyed by the Taleban in 2001. Why a replica of the Bamiyan Buddha is being sculpted in the Kurunegala ...

Mortars and cannon were being used to destroy the Buddha statues in Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, reports from Kabul said. The destruction has drawn heated reactions from Arab and Muslim ...

A member of the country’s Hazara ethnic minority discovered the manuscript in 1997 in a cave near one of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas that were carved into a mountain in ancient times and ...

Two German-speaking Swiss men, Paul Bucherer-Dietschi and Bernard Weber, have established a consortium which plans to rebuild one of two obliterated Buddha statues in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley.

Significant anthropomorphic images of the Buddha began to emerge in Northern India in the first century AD, some 600 years after Buddha Siddhartha Gautama lived and died. From the end of the 1st ...